See the whole thing here.
Please consider buying it in print here.
4/03/2013
3/24/2013
New Book: The Half Men
Hey, if you have been enjoying the Bona pages
or are a fan of my stuff, please help me spread the word
about my new minicomic. I'm not much for self-promotion
and I'd really appreciate it if you could reblog or tweet
or whatever, tell a friend if you think they would
be interested, etc. Thanks.
The Half Men
32 pages
5.5 x 7 in.
$4.00
Contains "Second Attempt," "Bona #1 Chapter 1," and "The Half Men."
Available at the Catastrophe Shop
ALSO NEW IN THE SHOP
Redbird #2 (by Dan Zettwoch)
Back in Stock:
Fight or Run: The Shadow of the Chopper
Tel-Tales #1 (by Dan Z)
If you work at a store and would like to order copies wholesale, please email me at ORELSE@USSCATASTROPHE.COM
3/20/2013
3/13/2013
3/10/2013
3/07/2013
2/26/2013
2/17/2013
2/13/2013
2/12/2013
2/09/2013
New P.O. Box
My old PO Box, which I had for over 12 years, is now closed (long story, involving my own laziness and one very unhelpful clerk, which in my experience was unusual because other clerks have been very friendly and helpful). It's been down for about about 4 months, and some people have told me they've had their mail returned, and I'm sorry about that.
NEW BOX:
PO Box 38061
Saint Louis, MO
63138
USA
(also new zip code)
NEW BOX:
PO Box 38061
Saint Louis, MO
63138
USA
(also new zip code)
1/13/2013
1/10/2013
1/09/2013
Trees of Life (1 of 2)
Here's one of my favorite parts of Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution:
"…the so called quinarian approach to classification that was embodied in the work of British entomologist named William Sharpe Macleay (1792-1840) but taken up almost immediately by others, principally Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1787-1840) and William Swainson (1789-1855) during the 1820s and 30s. They somehow came to believe that living things existed in natural groups of five, that such groups of five are naturally divisible into five subgroups, each subgroup into five sub-subgroups, and so on. Affinities among taxa formed circular chains…Quinarians were also convinced that similarities between taxa based on affinity as well as analogy could be indicated in the same diagram…"
Here are two examples of these diagrams (check the pentagram…evilution):
Another quinarian, “…Swainson devoted several years to the development of a new general classification of animals based on quinarianism, applying it, for example, throughout his two-volume Natural History of Birds that appeared in 1836 and 1837.” Imagine spending years on this. Imagine those wonderful days when everything seems to fit, and the frustration when they don’t. Notice, in the diagrams above, that three asterisks were placed where taxa that "had yet to be discovered.” The “ ule of five” predicts them, so they must be out there somewhere.
Looking for patterns, can't knock it. It's not like they were numerologists or anything. And they were def. way smarter than I am. I’m sure this played out differently in reality than the Borges-lite story in my mind.
The questionable pattern I see reminds me of this post at waggish, the part about Fludd vs. Kepler:
The questionable pattern I see reminds me of this post at waggish, the part about Fludd vs. Kepler:
“I too play with symbols and have planned a little work, Geometric Cabala, which is about the Ideas of natural things in geometry; but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols; things already known are merely fitted [to them]; unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of these connections.” (Kepler)
Here's the good part. Why 5? Why not 6? or 9? “…As the approach developed and became more widespread, some proponents of circle arrangements were not content to restrict the number to five.” You can see where this is going...
Here are diagrams based on numbers 7 and 10:
1/02/2013
12/28/2012
dream 1249447
Had a really tedious, detailed dream last night about Robert Caro's system for doing research for his multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. Other than a piece in the New Yorker and maybe hearing him on NPR once, I have never read or even looked at these books. According to my dream, Caro assigned a number to each bit of information he wrote in his notebooks. So, the color of the necktie that LBJ was wearing on, say, April 16, 1965, was noted and then this note was labeled 1249448, and then who LBJ met with that morning was noted and labeled as 1249449, and the next thing he did that day was 1249450, and so on. I don't understand how this system was supposed to help him write his biographies, but I watched Caro doing this for what seemed like hours, and then I woke up. Thanks, brain.
12/19/2012
12/17/2012
12/10/2012
Wild Animals I Have Known
I was looking for some good scans of Wild Animals I Have Known on the web, but the only one I could find wasn't very good, so I started scanning my copy and will be putting those here. I only have a few up now, but I'll let you know when there's more. (If you know of some good scans online please let me know.) This is a pretty great comic book drawn by LB Cole, and the inks still look great in my copy. There's something lost in the scans, though, because the way the dot patterns look on the screen doesn't match the way they look on the paper, but these scans look better than others I could find.
When I post more pages, I'll let you know.
If you scroll all the way to the right there's a "NEXT" in the bottom right corner that will take you to the next set of pages. And I could just post the links here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Also, if the pages are too big on your screen, you can hold down "command" and press "-" (minus sign) (on a Mac) until you're happy, or hold down "CTRL" and press "-" (on a PC (I think?)). Doing the same with the plus sign will make them bigger.
When I post more pages, I'll let you know.
If you scroll all the way to the right there's a "NEXT" in the bottom right corner that will take you to the next set of pages. And I could just post the links here:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Also, if the pages are too big on your screen, you can hold down "command" and press "-" (minus sign) (on a Mac) until you're happy, or hold down "CTRL" and press "-" (on a PC (I think?)). Doing the same with the plus sign will make them bigger.
12/08/2012
12/04/2012
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